Cork Jewish Culture Walk
Next public walk Saturday 17th August 2024, Cork Heritage Open Day
Click here to watch a song from the Walk on the Open Day in 2023.
Or see the full video below.
Left - Cheshire B'nai B'rith group
May 2024 Right - Playing at Kieran McCarthy's guided walk August 2023 |
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"We couldn't imagine a more perfect way to end our trip. The way you shared the fruits of your research, combined with the music and singing, were everything we'd hoped, and more."
from a walk participant, 2024
from a walk participant, 2024
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The sites and video timepoints
Trinity Bridge 01:02 The Mikveh 03:21 The Synagogue 03:43 The Former Cemetery 05:41 Shalom Park 06:48 Jewtown 09:13 Mary Elmes Bridge 12:24 |
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Community Notices
Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk are happy to announce the following weddings:
20th August 1891
9th April 2000
In other news:
1940s
1950s
1950s
mid 1980s
Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk are happy to announce the following weddings:
20th August 1891
- The second Jewish wedding to be held in Cork Synagogue: Chaya Sorah Bat Eliezer Gavronsky/Abrahamson to Abraham Hillel Ben Yehuda Lieb Jackson
9th April 2000
- The last Jewish wedding to be held in Cork Synagogue: Alexander Goldberg to Silke Mueter
In other news:
1940s
- The winners of this year's annual Purim fancy dress party are, as is often the case: The Goldberg family!
1950s
- Please note, there is a rota for getting kosher meat delivered on the train from Dublin. Please make sure that you get on the list, and if the train is late coming from Dublin, please cook it extra carefully.
1950s
- Cheder (Sunday morning Jewish school) continues for all Jewish children at 9, South Terrace.
mid 1980s
- The sad death is announced of the last Jewish resident in 'Jewtown', living in Monerea Terrace, Fanny Goldwater
Many chanukiot, as the new community celebrates Chanuka in City Hall.
The Ner Tamid, the "Everlasting Light", in the old synagogue
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The old minister's house in Monerea Terrace, now sadly dilapidated.
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Challa, apples and honey as the new community celebrates Rosh Hashana, Jewish New Year
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A Timeline of Cork Jewish Community
Mid/late 1500s
1725
1881
1884
1885
1891
1892
1898
1900-1905
1915
1930
1977-1978
1989
2011
2016
2019
2020
Mid/late 1500s
- Francis Annyas/Anes, a Marrano Jew, elected mayor of Youghal
1725
- First mention of a Jewish congregation in Cork which included a cemetery and shochet (kosher animal slaughterer for meat)
1881
- New wave of immigrants, many from Lithuania. Prayers took place in a room with ten men.
1884
- Congregation moved to a larger space on Malborough street
1885
- Burial ground purchased at Curraghkippane
1891
- Split in community - Cork Hebrew Congregation moved prayers to 25 South Terrace. Remnant of Israel stayed on Malborough street.
- First Hebrew school in Ireland (9 and 10 South Terrace), South Terrace National School.
1892
- 76 students enrolled in the South Terrace National School
1898
- 87 students enrolled in the South Terrace National School
1900-1905
- Cork Hebrew Congregation moved into 10 South Terrace
- Remnant of Israel moved into 25 South Terrace
1915
- The two prayer groups combine into Cork Hebrew Congregation and stay in 10 South Terrace
1930
- South Terrace National School ceases to function
1977-1978
- Gerald Goldberg elected Lord Mayor of Cork
- Trinity Bridge erected
1989
- Cork Gas Company donates land in the old Jewish residential area (nicknamed ‘Jewtown’ by locals) to create Shalom Park.
2011
- Maddie Leach creates art instillation, Evening Echo, in Shalom Park, which becomes part of the Chanuka celebrations every year
2016
- Synagogue closes
- Munster Jewish Community formed by some members of West Cork's Jewish community
2019
- Mary Elmes Bridge built - a walking and cycling bridge honouring a Cork woman who saved Jewish people in France during the Holocaust
2020
- Cork Jewish Heritage Virtual Walk
Literature with a Cork Jewish subject matter includes:
A Land Not Theirs David Marcus (novel)
The Hebrew Lesson Wolf Mankowitz (play/film script)
Green Feather Boa Ruti Lachs (musical play script)
Jewtown Simon Lewis (poetry collection)
Links
Cork City Council Walks webpage https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-heritage-open-day/walks/
Cork Jewish Community
Permanent exhibition: The Tsars, the Rosehills, and the Music Shop is at Cork City Public Museum in Fitzgeralds Park https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-public-museum/
Cork City and County Archives http://www.corkarchives.ie/
Cork Folklore Project https://corkfolklore.org/
Cork City Library http://www.corkcitylibraries.ie/en/
Simon Lewis: Jewtown published Doire Press
David Goldberg: www.davidgoldberggallery.com
Stuart Rosenblatt: Irish Jewish Genealogical Society www.irishjewishroots.com
Malcolm Shifrin: Victorian Turkish Baths www.victorianturkishbath.org
Pop-Up Klezmer - Cork's klezmer band https://www.facebook.com/Pop-Up-Klezmer-300662833935894
Wombat Media video production https://wombatmedia.ie/
Credits
This project would not have been possible without the support of the following: Marnina Winkler. PhD candidate UCC, local Jewish historian, timeline researcher, and co-presenter; Val Davin of Munster Jewish Community , co-presenter and photographer; Niamh Twomey and Cork City Council for support and funding; David Goldberg and Filis Rosenberg for their memories and encouragement; Colum Pettit (fiddle) and Eileen Healy (fiddle and voice) of Pop-Up Klezmer, and Jarom Xochimith (cello) for their musical input; Fintan Lucy for videoing the scenes around Cork City; Dave Slowo of Wombat Media for editing the video. Also thanks to Stuart Rosenblatt and Malcolm Shifrin for permission to use their maps.
The Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk came about as a follow-on from research for the 2020 musical play, Green Feather Boa, set in Cork Jewish Community a hundred years earlier. Both projects kindly supported by Cork City Council.
A Land Not Theirs David Marcus (novel)
The Hebrew Lesson Wolf Mankowitz (play/film script)
Green Feather Boa Ruti Lachs (musical play script)
Jewtown Simon Lewis (poetry collection)
Links
Cork City Council Walks webpage https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-heritage-open-day/walks/
Cork Jewish Community
Permanent exhibition: The Tsars, the Rosehills, and the Music Shop is at Cork City Public Museum in Fitzgeralds Park https://www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-public-museum/
Cork City and County Archives http://www.corkarchives.ie/
Cork Folklore Project https://corkfolklore.org/
Cork City Library http://www.corkcitylibraries.ie/en/
Simon Lewis: Jewtown published Doire Press
David Goldberg: www.davidgoldberggallery.com
Stuart Rosenblatt: Irish Jewish Genealogical Society www.irishjewishroots.com
Malcolm Shifrin: Victorian Turkish Baths www.victorianturkishbath.org
Pop-Up Klezmer - Cork's klezmer band https://www.facebook.com/Pop-Up-Klezmer-300662833935894
Wombat Media video production https://wombatmedia.ie/
Credits
This project would not have been possible without the support of the following: Marnina Winkler. PhD candidate UCC, local Jewish historian, timeline researcher, and co-presenter; Val Davin of Munster Jewish Community , co-presenter and photographer; Niamh Twomey and Cork City Council for support and funding; David Goldberg and Filis Rosenberg for their memories and encouragement; Colum Pettit (fiddle) and Eileen Healy (fiddle and voice) of Pop-Up Klezmer, and Jarom Xochimith (cello) for their musical input; Fintan Lucy for videoing the scenes around Cork City; Dave Slowo of Wombat Media for editing the video. Also thanks to Stuart Rosenblatt and Malcolm Shifrin for permission to use their maps.
The Cork Jewish Culture Virtual Walk came about as a follow-on from research for the 2020 musical play, Green Feather Boa, set in Cork Jewish Community a hundred years earlier. Both projects kindly supported by Cork City Council.
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